OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Competition & Change is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Nigeria’s industrial policy transformation in the era of Sino-African cooperation	67
Economic statecraft by design and by default: The political economy of the 5G-Huawei bans in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany	29
Erratum to “An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context”	28
Gábor Scheiring, The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary	28
The multiple faces of financialization: Financial and business services in the US economy, 1997–2020	25
Urban entrepreneurialism 3.0 and the export of urban expertise: The case of South Korea’s international information and telecommunication technology program	24
Industrial policy and comparative political economy: A literature review and research agenda	20
The moral economy of the algorithmic crowd: Possessive collectivisim and techno-economic rentiership	20
Introduction	16
Putting wage growth back on the table: Labour incorporation, political exchange, and wage-boosting policies in advanced peripheral economies	16
Statism and state activism in response to China’s belt and Road Initiative: Indonesia and Malaysia’s approaches to developing the EV sector	16
Oligopoly-driven development: The World Bank’s Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains in perspective	16
Desmond McNeill, Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century	15
Profit-making, costs, and investments in the digitalization of retailing—The uneven trajectories of Carrefour, Amazon and Walmart (1995–2019)	14
The politics of developmental alliances and municipal industrial policy in Central and Eastern European cities	12
State capacity for green growth: Analyzing industrial policy in the Latin American lithium triangle	11
Finance as a form of economic planning	10
Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization	8
The knowledge-leveraging corporation in the neoliberalisation-financialisation nexus	8
Accounting infrastructures and the negotiation of social and economic returns under financialization: The case of impact investing	8
Salience of multiple actors involved in formal and informal governance systems encouraging corporate social responsibility in an emerging market	8
The limits of derisking. (Un)conditionality in the European green transformation	7
Financialization and state capitalism in Hungary after the Global Financial Crisis	7
Financially engineering a “self-generative” political economy of creditworthiness: Expertocratic exemption problems for sustainable debt and democracy	7
Making “strategic autonomy” rhyme with “fiscal austerity?” Unresolved conflicts of (geo)economic ideas in EU infrastructure policy	7

Theorizing globalized production and digitalization: Towards a re-centering of value	7
Industry evolution: Evidence from the Italian brewing industry	7
State roles in platform governance: AI’s regulatory geographies	6
Disentangling the transformation of the German model: The role of firms’ strategic decisions and structural change	6
Craig Berry, Julie Froud and Tom Barker (eds), The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK	6
From coworking to competing? Business models and strategies of UK coworking spaces beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Reconceptualizing contemporary energy markets	6
Planning progress: Incorporating innovation and structural change into models of economic planning	6
The roles of intermediaries in upgrading of manufacturing clusters: Enhancing cluster absorptive capacity	5
From vulnerability to stability? Latin American strategies to govern financial subordination	5
Insurance and the contradictions of the climate-development-finance nexus: The case of the African Risk Capacity	5
Cyber-physical decentralized planning for communizing	5
Central banks, economic statecraft and offshore banking: Comparing financial internationalization strategies in Latvia and Estonia	5
The invisible leverage of the rich. Absentee debtors and their hedge funds	5
The three ages of the European policy for productive investments	5
The impact of state activism on domestic multinationals: The case of Czechia and Hungary	5
Financial expansion in Sweden (2000–2008): A hybrid “debt&export-led” growth model	5
The emergence of a New European Labour Policy regime: Continuity and change since the euro crisis	5